Drive-By Body Pierce Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 TEAM Radio @TEAM1040 9m Terrible news. Via @willesonsports: Gino Odjicks last fight: Beloved Canucks enforcer battles terminal heart disease http://www.theprovince.com/sports/hockey/canucks-hockey/Gino+Odjick+last+fight+Beloved+Canucks/9979028/story.html A sad day, my condolences to family and friends. I just wanted this info to be in the first post: You can support Gino in three ways. By writing to him: http://nucksnation.net/gino By donating to the Gino Strong Fund: http://www.gofundme.com/ginostrong By donating to the Canucks for Kids Fund: http://canucks.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=39934 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outsiders Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 sad day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueberries Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Wow, thats so sad. Gino was a great man, truly a heartbreaking day for many Canucks fans and players. Condolences with his family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerEpic5 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 When death is near, there is no stopping it. My condolences to his family and loved ones. One of my favourite Canuck of all time behind Linden, Bure and Smyl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckbeliever Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Really sad story. Gino Odjick enters the cafeteria at Vancouver General Hospital with the aid of a walker. He’s toting an oxygen tank and he shows the signs of two weeks of chemotherapy. At this moment, it’s hard to reconcile the man you see with the enforcer who took on all comers and became one of the most popular players in Vancouver Canucks’ history. But then he speaks. Then you know the fighter remains. “I’m in good spirits and I”m going to do the best I can to fight this,” says Odjick. “Just because it’s diagnosed one way doesn’t mean it’s going to go that way. “I’ll let the chips fall where they may. I’m prepared. I’m not accepting it yet but I’m prepared.” Earlier in the day, his good friend Pat Quinn talked about Odjick’s spirit; how, through his many battles on and off the ice, there was something indomitable about his former player. You still see this. It’s hard when you see what disease has done to him but there remains a big part of the man who will not be defeated. Odjick has been told his time might be measured in months, if not weeks. In mid-April, shortly after the ceremony that inducted Quinn into the Canucks’ Ring of Honour, he became short of breath. Two days later he was diagnosed with amyloidsis, a rare heart condition in which a protein, produced in the bone marrow, forms deposits in the heart. The form he has is considered terminal. A heart transplant won’t work. Neither will a bone-marrow transplant. There are experimental treatments in Europe but the best hope is doctors can buy Odjick some time. “You don’t think when you’re 43 years old they’re going to tell you you’ve got one year to live,” he says. “It was the last thing on my mind. There’s been a lot of soul searching.” He’s asked if he’s found any answers. “Not yet. All I can do is the best I can do every day. But there comes a point when I have to make plans to enjoy the last year and that’s where we’re at right now.” Odjick, of course, has lived a thousand lives during his 43 years. He was born on an Algonquin reserve just outside of Maniwaki, Que., before leaving to play in Hawkesbury as a 16-year-old. After two seasons with Laval in the Quebec league, the Canucks made him a fifth-round draft pick in the 1990 draft. Odjick would be called up from Milwaukee partway through the next season. He would play in Vancouver for eight years. “The amazing thing about Gino is how fast he improved,” said Canucks president Trevor Linden, Odjick’s teammate through the ’90s. “When he got called up we were thinking, ‘How’s he going to help us?’ Then we saw how hard he played and his heart. And he kept getting better.” He wasn’t a star. Odjick played 605 NHL games because he was a much better fighter than a player. But he could fill a third- or fourth-line role and in 1993-94, his most productive season, he scored 16 goals. www.theprovince.com/sports/hockey/canucks-hockey/Gino+Odjick+last+fight+Beloved+Canucks/9979028/story.html I know this is going to sound like a very Twitter thing to do but lets show support for Gino by getting #prayforgino trending on twitter If people don't want to completely get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpt Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Why he hasn't yet been put in the ROH is mind boggling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRussianRocket. Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Very unfortunate. Hope he pulls through. Parents fav player beside Linden & Bure from the heydays. He's as tough as they came. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undrafted Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 That's incredibly sad news. Sympathies to his family and I hope he gets to do everything he wants to do with the time he has left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakyWalton Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Damn,, I didnt know this was happening, I knew he was having some other health problems but to hear this and to have it be so terminal shocks me! Prayers go out to Gino, one of my all time favorite Canucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJDDawg Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Holy crap. I knew he was dealing with some mental health issues, but this is right out of the blue. I wonder if Trev and the team will try to honour him in some way. Very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watermelon Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 No one should die that young. I hope he tries that experimental thing in Europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deized_kanuck604 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Get off the chemo gino! Cbd's!! Do it!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug the plug (goalie) Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Gino Thanks for all of the great memories. Like pavel said you are a legend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Damn Gino we hardly got a chance to really know you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Specter Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Very sad to hear about the news... Keep on fighting Gino! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Provost Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Met him a couple of times at martial arts tournaments that I was competing in (he was a spectator/fan).... he was always so nice and humble, asking lots of questions. Pretty sad, hope that he gets as much comfort as possible form his friends and family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppleJack Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I have Mad respect for Gino, he was a treat to watch, and I always liked him. I am sending him best wishes that he is able to fight this thing. you're in my thoughts Gino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awalk Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Heavy heavy stuff...that guy is a part of my childhood. I will always remember chanting GINO GINO GINO at the games. What a champ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoneypuckOverlord Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 got his autograph on my 94 Canucks Jersey. That said... extremely shocked. Pavel Bure is probably going to fly down here, to say his good byes. Terrible just terrible news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandmaster Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Terrible news. I love this guy. He was a great Canuck warrior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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